Privatised Enforcement: A Threat to Our Civil Liberties Online.

If you learn that Paypal made an agreement to "protect intellectual property", those propaganda words should be a clue that this agreement is bad. (In fact it entails cutting service to its own clients.) I believe it should be illegal for an important internet service to cut off a client without going to court.

Readers Digest does printing in China, so when printers in China demanded censorship of a book in English, Readers Digest gave in rather than spend $30,000 more to print the book.

This is one of the many forms of harm done by globalization of business, driven by unjust treaties such as the WTO.

After seven years, one person (Rahinah Ibrahim) has been removed from the US no-fly list by a court. But nothing has changed in the system, and the next victim could find it just as difficult as it was for her.

The no-fly list is punishment without trial and should be considered unconstitutional.

Bad news: the movie industry's income increased again, proving that there is no danger forbidden sharing will wipe out the movie companies any time soon.

That's unfortunate. These companies spend their money on propaganda campaigns saying that sharing is "piracy", and lobbying for unjust laws such as SOPA and ACTA. Much of Europe has effectively adopted the parts of SOPA.

I regard the movie companies as enemies of our freedom. I practice a not-quite-boycott of Hollywood: I never to pay to see a movie unless I have reason to think it is good. In principal, this is quite different from a total boycott of Hollywood. In practice, there is little difference. If you catch yourself and stop yourself when you are about to agree to "go see a movie" without knowing which one, you will join my not-quite-boycott.

Many Republicans oppose federal agency plans to find out about conflicts of interest in scientific research that agency decisions might rely on.

This opposition makes sense. Republicans, in general, stand for helping companies corrupt the government. Therefore, they don't want agencies to resist using scientific studies corrupted by those same companies.